Eric Maisel Quotes
A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.
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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
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I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
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My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.
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Writing has to support itself.
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The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it. I've carved a life out for myself in Oregon, and it feels like home, not because it's the States but because that's where my friends are and where my son is.
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I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.
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Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
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VH1 does its little '80s retro thing once in a while, all of us in our bad hairdos and unfortunate clothes.
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When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.
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I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
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One of the men in the boat-I could not remember which character-had moved through all of the circles of theological supposition: praying, believing that God was a merciful Deity who sat up nights worrying about him, then believing that God was a cruel bastard, and finally deciding that no one was listening.
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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
